Decoupling Exploration and Policy Optimization: Uncertainty Guided Tree Search for Hard Exploration

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Main Authors:	Mhammedi, Zakaria, Cohan, James
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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